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I was in school in Llandudno in 1940/41 prior to going on HM traning ship Conway and then to sea in the MN at 17 years of age in 1943.
On Easter Sunday , after a raid on Liverpool a Heinkel 111 crashed above Aber(near Bangor). I think two crew memebers died and one crawled down to a remote cottage and alerted the authorities about the crash.News travelled fast and on Easter Monday , my father and my brother and I went to Aber and saw soldiers escorting two German airmen down from the mountain. Other soldiers carried a stretcher with a body on it. One I noticed had piercing grey eyes and wore wings on his uniform - the pilot no doubt.
After climbing high up the mountain we came across the wreckage and I aquired parts of the control dials and large piece of parachute silk which mother made into a petticoat. Several boys took cannon shells and later the police visited our school in an attempt to retrieve these.
Fourty years later I was in the area and telling my schoolboy sons about the wreckage and they suggested I was romancing. I asked if they were willing to climb up to the site and they said "yes".
Up we climbed and as each brow was reached we expected to see soemthing but it appeared we were to be disappointed. However something ahead glinted in the sunshine and we found the wreck. it was the chromed olio strut of the undercarriage wheich glinted in the sun - after 40 years. We too some pices of fuselage as siouveniers.
I read that the pilot, an ardent Nazi had murdered another german POW in the camp in Canada where they were taken.

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